Serum soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2 as a novel inflammatory marker predicts the severity of acute pancreatitis

Table 4 Correlation between serum inflammatory factor and total hospital stay and intensive care unit stay

sST2/LN (Inflammatory factors, pg/mL)	Total hospital stay		Total ICU stay
	r	P value	r	P value
sST2	0.463b	0.000	0.673b	0.000
LN (IFN-γ)	0.430b	0.000	0.700b	0.000
LN (TNF-α)	0.341b	0.000	0.652b	0.000
LN (IL-2)	-0.043	0.638	-0.082	0.366
LN (IL-4)	-0.483b	0.000	-0.440b	0.000
LN (IL-5)	-0.123	0.174	0.062	0.494
LN (IL-13)	-0.006	0.946	-0.139	0.126

^bP < 0.001. sST2: Soluble suppression of tumorigenicity 2; ICU: Intensive care unit; IFN-γ: Interferon-γ; TNF-α: Tumor necrosis factor-α; IL: Interleukin.